Obomination: Democrats Fighting for Ineligible Voters in Virginia

The election of Governor in Virginia this November is likely to be a very close race.  As a result, the Democrat Party and their candidate for Governor, Terry McAuliffe, are pulling out all the stops to “turn out” voters, including non-people and ineligible voters.

Democrats in Virginia are stopping just short of opening polling places in the graveyards to make sure every ineligible voter is counted. The state Democratic Party last week asked a federal judge in Alexandria for an injunction to block state and local election officials from deleting the names of ineligible voters. When the roll is called up yonder, in the updated hymn, the dead Democrats will still be here.

The suit is about ineligible voters, not dead ones, but some dearly departed Democrats are no doubt on the rolls, too. Election officials have compiled a list of 57,000 names of former Virginians who have moved and put down roots elsewhere in the country. Election officials want to cross-check the names of nonresidents against the voter-registration list and cross off the names of everyone who shouldn’t be voting in Virginia.

When voter rolls aren’t cleaned up on a regular basis, the result is a voter-registration list that swells beyond the total number of residents. The Huffington Post reported in April 2011 that this happened in 14 out of the 102 counties in Illinois. Just last month, a federal court ordered Walthall County, Miss., to purge the voter rolls, which list 124 percent of the county’s voting-age population.

 . . . Virginia officials counted 7,934 duplicate names on the Fairfax County voter rolls, and the Democratic lawsuit asks that every one of those be allowed to cast a ballot on Nov. 5. We suggest that Mr. McAuliffe court eligible Virginians, and leave be the Virginians who have moved on. Any dead ones, too. They don’t really have much interest now in what goes on in Richmond.

For those who think the ineligible don’t vote in Virginia, look no further back than last year when it was found “solicitors” went around encouraging ineligible felons to vote in the 2008 election in Virginia.  Of course it took four years for that to come to light, which is why Mr. McCauliffe is fighting so hard.  He knows it will take years for the ineligible to be brought to justice, if ever. 

That encouraging ineligible voting was done by “solicitors” supporting President Obama and is trying to be continued by Terry McAuliffe is this week’s Obomination.   

Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to Speak at the National Policy Conference

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is a man of many words-literally.  The candidate for Virginia governor recently released a new book called “The Last Line of Defense: The New Fight for American Liberty,” which will be highlighted and discussed this month during a special luncheon at the National Policy Conference.  The book shows Cuccinelli as unabashedly conservative in his views and demeanor, and hits hard on the “unprecedented overreach of the federal government.”

Ken Cuccinelli was the first Attorney General to argue in federal court against Obamacare.  He spends much of the book discussing this and calls the Obama Administration “the biggest set of lawbreakers in America.”  He also argues that politicians have created entitlement programs to make people dependent on government.  In the book his stories explain why the Attorney General thinks the way he does.  His intimate stories, including one which explains how his family relied on each other instead of government handouts when his sick mother was hospitalized for six months, shows a man who is rightfully unapologetic in his viewpoints and truly believes that it is up to the state attorney general to fight as the last line of defense for liberty.

While few would ever advise a candidate for governor or otherwise to release a book while campaigning, Cuccinelli seems to do it with flare.   A leader of the conservative movement, he will be a highlight to see at the National Policy Conference.  Sign up to see him today!

State Legal Leaders Speaking at RNLA Conference

As RNC Chair and upcoming RNLA National Policy Conference Speaker Reince Priebus points out the strength of the Republican Party is in the states.  While DC is stuck in gridlock and not getting much done, it is in the states where ideas are happening and where the country is moving forward.

A key part of that effort is the great Republican Attorneys General.  The RNLA National Policy Conference will feature four of these leaders who will give a one-of-a-kind overview of the nation’s legal health from their perspectives.  And we are lucky to have four such great leaders attending and speaking.  In alphabetical order:

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli will speak and sign copies of his book: The Last Line of Defense: The New Fight for American Liberty.  From the book description: 

With Obamacare and agencies like the EPA, the FCC, and the National Labor Relations Board attempting to exercise unprecedented control over the American people, the Obama Administration was breaking federal laws, ignoring federal courts, and violating the Constitution to achieve its goals of redistributing wealth, concentrating power in Washington, and rewarding its supporters.  Without enough lawmakers in Washington devoted to protecting the rule of law to stop the federal government's liberty-stealing power grab, the battle had to be waged in an unprecedented way: from the states -- just as our Founding Fathers intended.  The man who led the charge was Ken Cuccinelli, the first state attorney general to argue in federal court against Obamacare, an unapologetic defender of the Constitution, and a man admirers and detractors alike said "was tea party long before there was a Tea Party."  The Last Line of Defense provides a behind-the-scenes account of the myriad of legal battles in which our states were the only instruments of resistance to federal abuses of power.

While General Cuccinelli is coming to the end of his time as Attorney General, our next speaker West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is just starting.  Morrisey is no stranger to the important legal battles of our day and has led them from inside Washington and in the court room.  A brief excerpt from his bio:

Prior to his election, Morrisey assisted in the successful multi-state challenge to the national health care law in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and counseled Members of Congress on strategies to repeal the law. He has also led successful efforts to thwart the federal government's efforts to impose price controls on health care products and seeks to limit the scope of federal regulations over our nation's health care system.  In addition to his health care expertise, Morrisey has handled administrative law, election law, public policy, and several criminal defense matters during his 21 year legal career.  Between 1999 to 2004, Morrisey served as the Deputy Staff Director and Chief Health Care Counsel to the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, helping draft and negotiate major legislation, including the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 and the Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness Act of 2002.

Next up is Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens.   The charismatic General Olens has spoken frequently to RNLA events.  General Olens is leading in issues across the board from a statewide campaign against child sex trafficking on the “local” level to joining in national efforts challenging Dodd-Frank.  On the latter he wrote:

“Dodd-Frank violates basic principles of separation of powers and government that is accountable to the people.  It also gives the federal government the power to pick winners and losers, putting the State of Georgia’s financial assets at risk,” added Olens. “By joining this lawsuit, we are standing up for the Constitution, standing up for our local communities, and protecting our State’s finances.”

Our final speaker is long time RNLA Member Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange.  Prior to his election as Alabama’s 49th Attorney General, General Strange earned the reputation as one of Alabama's leading lawyers. He represented Hyundai when they located in Alabama along with many other companies, creating jobs across Alabama.  As Attorney General he is standing up for the second amendment as he recently wrote in response to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s actions:

The rights guaranteed us under the Second Amendment are fundamental and sacred. The Senate Democrats are using the tragedies that befell our nation to advance their political agenda. If these bills become law, I will move quickly to challenge them and protect Alabama citizens from this abusive federal overreach.

The RNLA is greatly honored to have all these legal leaders speaking at our April 26th Policy Conference.  It is in the states led by these Generals, that the battle to uphold the Constitution is being waged.